"Studying languages as the products of nature, it is interested in the biological origin and development of language."
Study of the evolution of languages and their impact on cultures and societies throughout history.
Historical Linguistics: The study of how languages change over time.
Proto-Indo-European: The reconstructed ancestor of many modern Indo-European languages.
Evolution of Writing Systems: The development of writing systems and their influences on language and culture.
Phonetics: The study of speech sounds and their production and perception.
Phonology: The study of the sound systems of languages and their patterns.
Morphology: The study of how words are constructed from smaller units called morphemes.
Syntax: The study of the structure of sentences and how words are ordered.
Semantics: The study of meaning in language and how meaning is expressed.
Lexicography: The study of dictionaries and how words are defined.
Etymology: The study of the origins of words and how they have changed over time.
Language Contact: The study of how languages interact with each other and influence each other.
Dialectology: The study of regional variations in language, including pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.
"Evolutionary linguists consider linguistics as a subfield of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology."
"The approach is also closely linked with evolutionary anthropology, cognitive linguistics, and biolinguistics."
"A main challenge in this research is the lack of empirical data: there are no archaeological traces of early human language."
"Computational biological modelling and clinical research with artificial languages have been employed to fill in gaps of knowledge."
"Although biology is understood to shape the brain, which processes language, there is no clear link between biology and specific human language structures or linguistic universals."
"It is suggested that grammar has emerged adaptationally from the human genome, bringing about a language instinct."
"Or that it depends on a single mutation which has caused a language organ to appear in the human brain."
"Others suggest language is not crystallized, but fluid and ever-changing."
"Others, yet, liken languages to living organisms. Languages are considered analogous to a parasite or populations of mind-viruses."
"There is so far little scientific evidence for any of these claims, and some of them have been labelled as pseudoscience."
"Evolutionary anthropology, cognitive linguistics, and biolinguistics."
"Computational biological modelling and clinical research with artificial languages."
"Evolutionary linguists consider linguistics as a subfield of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology."
"Grammar has emerged adaptationally from the human genome, bringing about a language instinct."
"Others suggest language is not crystallized, but fluid and ever-changing."
"There is no clear link between biology and specific human language structures or linguistic universals."
"Computational biological modelling and clinical research with artificial languages."
"Evolutionary linguistics is contrasted with humanistic approaches, especially structural linguistics."
"Some of them have been labelled as pseudoscience."